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Those look soo delicious! How many plants do you have? That's a good haul!
Thanks! I have 19 plants and so far have filled 2 gallon-size freezer bags! And they’re still going too.
How big of a plot are the plants in? We have somewhere around 8 plants in a 20 gallon bucket like thing. I think we would need two more buckets to have that many plants
Strawberry patch is bottom right of photo.
It’s like 8 feet by 5 feet. The plants should have 12-18 inches space.
After harvest you should mow them down to 2”, leaving just a few small leaves, then and only then should you fertilize. Remove all runners. Once the plants are 4-5 years old, let the runners grow into new plants which you put into a new bed in the fall.
Wow! That's amazing. The squirrels here wreck ours, haha.
You probably can’t stop those squirrels, unfortunately.
But you may be able to turn the situation to some benefit anyway. Surrounding the strawberry bed with an elaborate and complexifying system of hampster tunnels, levers, and puzzles, you can harness the motivational power of their strawberry habit to teach the squirrels anything you want: ethics, music, ideological fervor, math, anything.
The world really is your oyster, so long as you teach the squirrels to crack it open for you.
This might even be the first day of your second career.
Holy fuck it is unfair that you have all those strawbs
Wow thats like twice as many as mine! You must have a lot of happy plants!
That’s a haul! You gonna make a jam with all of them?
I usually freeze them all for smoothies but I think I have to make jam this year I have too many
I believe it, but I am overcome with envy.
strawbs? wtf
Sberries*
StrawBs like a kid would pronounce it without the Rs
Nice haul!
My mom used to do that cookie sheet technique with our raspberries. They’d freeze on the cookie sheet then she could scrape them into bags and put those in the freezer.
Mind if I ask why you’ve got the leaves on the berries still? Does it preserve them better?
I only leave them on because I’m too lazy to take them off. I add them to my smoothies like that and the leaves don’t seem to affect the taste at all so what the heck they can just stay on it’s fine
Makes sense. Anything that can be digested without issue probably should be eaten honestly. The more diversity in diet the better.
What do you mix with them for a smoothie?
I did a business for a short period that was smoothie subscriptions.
My smoothie recipe was kale, watermelon, bananas, carrots, and strawberries. My customers could get either one or two liters of that delivered to their office fridge daily.
Never really got off the ground, but it was fun for a while.